Bloomberg Summer may be a few months away but oil investors are already getting their hopes up that American drivers will do their part to rebalance the market. Hedge funds increased bets on higher West Texas Intermediate crude prices for the first time in six weeks, shrugging off rising US supplies, as the coming driving season is expected to …

  Bloomberg Oil headed for its longest run of gains this year as Libya’s biggest oil field was said to have suffered another outage while Russia signaled it’s weighing an extension of OPEC-led production cuts. Futures gained for a fifth day in New York after advancing 3.2 percent last week following a US military strike on Syria. Libya’s Sharara field …

  Bloomberg Egyptian consumer prices showed some signs of stability in March, signaling that the surge in inflation triggered by the central bank’s decision to abandon currency controls five months ago could be easing. Annual inflation in urban areas accelerated to 30.9 percent compared with 30.2 percent in February, according to data released by the official statistics agency, CAPMAS on …